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Reading list for field exam in Stratification and Inequality

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Concepts

Erik Olin Wright (ed.) 2005. Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Duncan, Otis Dudley 1961. “A Socioeconomic Index for All Occupations”, Chapter 6 in Albert J. Reiss (ed.) Occupations and Social Status. Free Press.

Hauser, Robert M. and John R. Warren. 1997. “Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update and Critique”. Sociological Methodology 27: 177-298.

Weeden, Kim A. and David B. Grusky 2005. “The Case for a New Class Map” American Journal of Sociology 111: 141-212.

Ganzeboom, Harry B. G., Paul M. DeGraaf, Donald J. Treiman. 1992. “A Standard International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status”. Social Science Research 21: 1-56.

Sørenson, Aage B. 2000. “Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis” American Journal of Sociology 105: 1523-58 (also following comments by Wright and Goldthorpe).

Atkinson, Anthony B. 1983. The Economics of Inequality. Clarendon Press, Chapter 3.

Inequality

Davis, Kingsley and Wilbur E. Moore 1945. “Some Principles of Stratification” American Sociological Review 10: 242-49.

Neckerman, Kathryn M. and Florencia Torche 2007. “Inequality: Causes and Consequences” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 335-357.

Tumin, Melvin M. 1953. “Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis” American Sociological Review 18: 387-93.

Treiman, Donald J. “Industrialization and Social Stratification” in Edward O. Laumann (ed) Social Stratification: Research and Theory for the 1970s. Bobbs-Merril, pp: 207-34.

The Status Attainment Tradition 2

Blau, Peter M. and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure Simon and Schuster, chapters 1 and 5.

Sewell, William H., Archibald O. Haller and Alejandro Portes. 1969. “The Educational and Early Occupational Attainment Process” American Sociological Review 34: 82-92.

Duncan, Otis Dudley, Archibald Haller and Alejandro Portes. 1968. “Peer Influences on Aspirations: A Reinterpretation’. American Journal of Sociology 74: 119-37.

Bielby, William T. 1981. “Models of status attainment” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 1: 3-26.

William H. Sewell, Robert M. Hauser, Kristen W. Springer and Taissa S. Hauser 2004. As we age: a review of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, 1957–2001. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2004: 3-111.

Social Mobility

Duncan, Otis Dudley 1966. “Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Social Mobility” in Neil J. Smelser and Seymour Martin Lipset (eds). Social Structure and mobility in Economic Development, Aldine, pp. 51-97.

Featherman, David L., and Robert M. Hauser. 1978. Opportunity and Change. New York: Academic Press, chapter 5.

Breen, Richard 2004. Social Mobility in Europe. Oxford University Press, chapters 1, 2 and 15.

Erikson, Robert and John H. Goldthorpe 1992. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. Clarendon Press, chapters 1,2 and 11.

Breen, Richard, and Jan O Jonsson. 2005. "Inequality of opportunity in comparative perspective: Recent research in educational attainment and social mobility." Annual Review of Sociology 31: 223-243.

Hout, Michael. 1988. “More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s.” American Journal of Sociology 93:1358-1400.

Income Inequality and Mobility

Piketty, Thomas and Emmanual Saez 2003. “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118: 1-39. 3

Solon, Gary 1992. “Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States” American Economic Review 82: 393-408.

Lee, Chul-In and Gary Solon. 2009. “Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility” Review of Economics and Statistics 91: 766-72.

Black, Sandra E. and Paul J. Devereux 2011. “Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility”, Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4b, Elsevier, Chapter 16.

Björklund, Anders and Markus Jäntti 2009. ”Intergenerational Income Mobility and the Role of Family Background” in Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan and Timothy M. Smeeding (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, pp. 491-521.

Hertz, Tom. 2005. “Rags, Riches and Race: The Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Black and White Families in the United States.” in Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves (eds) Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 165-91.

Intergenerational transmission Sacerdote, Bruce 2007. “How Large are the Effects from Changes in Family Environment? A Study of Korean American Adoptees” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122: 119-57.

Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis 2002. “The Inheritance of Inequality” Journal of Economic Perspectives 16: 3-30.

Mare, Robert D. and Vida Maralani. 2006. “The Intergenerational Effects of Changes in Women’s Educational Attainments.” American Sociological Review 71:542-564.

Duncan, Otis Dudley. 1968. “Inheritance of Poverty or Inheritance of Race?” Pp. 85- 110 in On Understanding Poverty, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan, New York: Basic Books.

Education

Mare, Robert D. 1981. ‘Change and Stability in Educational Stratification.’ American Sociological Review 46: 72-87

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Cameron, Stephen V. and James J. Heckman 1998. ‘Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males’. Journal of Political Economy 106: 262-333.

Breen, Richard and Jan O. Jonsson, 2000. ‘A Multinomial Transition Model for Analyzing Educational Careers’. American Sociological Review, 65: 754-72.

Blossfeld, Hans Peter and Yossi Shavit 1993. ‘Persisting Barriers: Changes in Educational Opportunities in Thirteen Countries’ in Shavit, Yossi and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (eds.). Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Westview Press.

Breen, Richard, Ruud Luijkx, Walter Müller and Reinhard Pollak. 2009. “Non- Persistent Inequality in Educational Attainment: Evidence from Eight European Countries”. American Journal of Sociology, 114, 5.

Breen, Richard and John H. Goldthorpe 1997. ‘Explaining Educational Differentials: Towards a Formal Rational Action Theory’ Rationality and Society, 9: 275-305.

Raftery, Adrian and Michael Hout, 1993. ‘Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-75’. Sociology of Education 66: 41-62.

Lucas, Samuel R. 2001. ‘Effectively Maintained Inequality: Education Transitions, Track Mobility, and Social Background Effects.’ American Journal of Sociology 106: 1642-90.

Buchmann, Claudia, Thomas A. DiPrete and Anne McDaniel 2008. ‘Gender Inequalities in Education’. Annual Review of Sociology, 34: 319-37.

Buchmann, Claudia and Thomas A. DiPrete, 2006. ‘The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement’. American Sociological Review, 71: 515-41.

Dale, Stacy Berg and Alan D. Krueger. 2002. Estimating the Payoff to Attending a more selective College: an Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117: 1491-1527.

Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips. 1998. The Black-White Test Score Gap, Washington DC: Brookings Institute Press., “Introduction”

Poverty

Brady, David. 2003. "Rethinking the sociological measurement of poverty." Social Forces 81:715-742. 5

Lichter, Daniel T. 1997. "Poverty and Inequality among Children." Annual Review of Sociology 23:121-146.

Stevens, Ann Huff. 1994. "The Dynamics of Poverty Spells: Updating Bane and Ellwood." The American Economic Review 84:34-37.

Iceland, J. 2003. "Why poverty remains high: The role of income growth, economic inequality, and changes in family structure, 1949-1999." Demography 40:499-519.

Aber, J.L., N.G. Bennett, D.C. Conley, and J. Li. 1997. "The effects of poverty on child health and development." Annual Review of Public Health 18:463-483.

David J. Harding. 2003. “Counterfactual Models of Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Neighborhood Poverty on Dropping Out and Teenager Pregnancy.” American Journal of Sociology 190:676-719.